Awakeri Young Farmers Look Back On Year Of Club Activities

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 28, 9 March 1948, Page 6

Awakeri Young Farmers Look Back On Year Of Club Activities

The annual general meeting of the Awakeri Y.F.C. held recently reports a very successful year. From the beginning the club’s activities have been varied and instructive and have commanded the attention of people outside the clubs. A large number of field days and lectures were attended by the club including a ploughing demonstration, a grass seed mixture and purity trial, a trip to Ruakura Animal Research station and bee-keeping demonstrations besides a number of combined field days. At the club’s monthly meetings lectures on book-keeping, benefits of herd testing and sire survey, experiments with maize, soldering and pig housing were given by various speakers.

To raise funds for the national Young Farmers Club Memorial the club organised and ran dances but since the infantile paralysis bans have been in operation the club’s activities in this direction have been seriously curtailed. A Christmas hamper was also run for this purpose netting .the club £4O. The chairman concluded his report with an extract from Mr L. J. Wild’s statement on the aims of the Y.F.C. which said that: “The real joy in farming is partly in persuading the earth to yield her increase and in ’eeing a return from hard work itself when directed, not by tradition or custom or rule of thumb, but by intelligent understanding of Nature’s way.”